skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like a stupid way to suffocate and die on something in your sleep but it does affect a neurochemical (acetylcholine) which are implicated in how dreams and the entire sleep/wake cycle work. There's safer alternatives in my mind, 'oneirogics' [1] as I remember them being called, which affect the same neurotransmitters with none of the horrible addiction or choking risk - can be as simple as some ancient shamanic technique one researcher in central america told me, which was a maracuya leaf placed in your pillow to remind you in your dream of the distinct smell from the waking world that you're dreaming so you may control it

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneirogen
Completely irrelevant if there are missiles that fit the profile of something else because some fit the profile of an airliner end of story
Fair point. There’s a real difference in attitude between speculation and saving. Most people buy stocks to save for retirement, not to speculate that they’ll have enough money for retirement.

But most people aren’t investors, either. Typical people buy stock for their returns, not for their productive capacity. My point is that’s speculation.

Most people have a speculator’s mindset. They would be happy to make a windfall on the market. For example, who wouldn’t be happy to own a plot in downtown Detroit before an economic boom raised land prices? Or stock in a startup before an established company announced they would acquire it?

Although someone who puts money in the stock market for retirement may intend to save money, since a 401k seems like just any another asset, but it’s quite different from other assets: Bank accounts fund lending to companies for productive investments. Homes provide a residence. Bonds provide money to countries and companies for investment. But when individuals put money in the stock market, it’s because they hope the asset will appreciate.
> it will just make weapon makers start designing high-speed missiles with the radar signature of an airliner lol.

The weapons industry isn't that enthusiastic about blatantly violating the Geneva Conventions. There would be massive diplomatic costs to making, selling, buying or firing missiles with fake civilian transponders.
The US military isn't fighting in Gaza at all, you're just being inflammatory.
> Visa ... is little more than a small clearing house

worth $600 billion
Headline: "even be induce specific dreams just for fun"

Where are the editors? Scientific American has fallen a long way.
A few years back I was flying to London, and when I got the ticket it was for an Embraer landing in London City Airport. I was excited about the airport as after flying many times to London it was the only one out of the five nearby airports I had never been to, but the aircraft got me nervous: I never heard of Embraer and it was smaller (I thought bigger=safer, maybe that’s still true?) than the usual Airbus and Boeing I was using regularly. Ignorance will do that, I wonder if this (ignorant customers) is still a factor when airlines buy aircrafts.

BTW the airline sadly put me in a different plane to a different airport in the last minute, no reason given.
To people who really understand them and are grounded, I think you're right. There has been a lot of hype among people who don't understand them as much, a lot of hype among the public, and a lot of schlock about "superintelligence" and "hard takeoff" etc. among smart but un-grounded people.

The latter kind of fear mongering hype has been exploited by companies like ClosedAI in a bid for regulatory capture.
Does he need cover? The windows people keep falling out of don't seem very covered.
Good thing openssl is so good it hasn't had any CVE at all in all the years since that happened right?
Bill Starke is Chief Architect of Power CPUs at IBM

> Bill Starke: So I know a lot of people don't hear all the details about us. We're not super well known, but actually when you swipe something on your phone, you know, when you click something, most of the time it's running through a power computer, you know, hidden behind a curtain somewhere. You're running in, you know, all the world's top enterprises.

This claim is very much contradicting my view. I'm expecting phones to run ARM, and servers to run Intel/AMD.

I'm also expecting a lot of lower level hardware these days to be on ARM.

I know you can get routers - maybe big iron routers? - running POWER, but I've not seen it anywhere else.

Anyone cast some light on this?
I use it for fast documentation of unknown (to me) APIs and other pieces of software. It's saved me hours of time, where I didn't have to go through the developers site/documentation and I get quickly get example code.

Would I use the code directly in production? No. I always use it as an example and write my own code.
This is Russia, so assuming malice or incompetence is redundant.

But in all likelihood it was a mistake; if they were serious about killing it they'd have shot more missiles, and they're not in a position to be wasting AAMs on non-military targets.
Yes but they came shortly after Bitcoin with comparable fees. This is not a coincidence.
Good example of quality scientific writing with the fun topic of making batteries from household materials.
Autocomplete distracts me enough that it really needs to be close to 100% correct before it's useful. Otherwise it's just wrecking my flow and slowing me down.
Not sure I followed all of that lingo but it sounds like a fancy way of saying, if you're losing the game, try shifting the goal post.
It’s interesting that their original mission statement is basically their own evaluation that by having to consider financial goals they are detracting from their ability to have positive impacts on humanity. They’ve plainly said there is a trade off.
It is curious, and perhaps very telling, that _nobody_ felt comfortable enough to put their name to this post.
You are describing a war crime.
This is what LLM (and AI in general) naysayers are missing.

LLMs will likely never get us to 100% solutions on a large class of problems.

But! A lot of problems can be converted into versions with a subcomponent that LLMs can solve 100% of.

And the fusion of LLMs doing 100% of that subportion + humans doing the remainder = increased productivity.

Re-engineering problems to be LLM-tolerant, then using LLMs to automate that portion of the problem, is the winning approach.
The Earnest Shackleton quote "Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success," while very famous and often quoted, is likely apocryphal[1]. In additional to a complete lack of any source, the British Shackleton would never have used the American spelling of "honor."

[1]: https://discerninghistory.com/2013/05/shackletons-ad-men-wan...
That's a good point, and a serious brainfart on my part :)
Confusion with civilian prop aircraft, not commercial jet airliners flying at vastly higher altitude and speeds.
What a well-written piece. She sounds exactly like a person who "...finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything"
Radar doesn't exactly tell you the size of of a contact. Sure, you can measure the power of the return signal, correct for distance and get something that loosely correlates with size. But it correlates much more strongly with other things.

You're also making the assumption here that it was a modern Russian system. This wasn't exactly close to the current fighting, its entirely possible this radar was manufactured in the Soviet Union. I don't think those receive a lot (or any) civilian broadcasts.
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Shooting down an commercial airliner seems far riskier / just more complicated / hassle compared to "typical" assassination efforts. It's not as if Russian leadership is afraid to do that.
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An AI company is trying 'dystopian' marketing
Probably the only winner in this situation, really.

Makes Boeing look extra crappy given recent events, too.
Seems to me like it's still fraud, by definition? If you monetize your content you can prove loss, if a competitor is engaging in the fraud even better!

Those people being targeted by this troll should band together and sue.
Is there a way to restore session (windows, tabs, paths) after (application) start? How is this not default everywhere is beyond me (looking at Firefox).

But my main point here would be that the lack of explorable configuration, and the docs not having any search, make it quite challenging search for this.
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> Maybe not entirely seriously, but there is a direct causative path initiated by the United States that you can follow which lead to this result.

No, there isn't. There's a direct causative path initiated by Xerxes I when he launched the second invasion of Greece.
Does it offer better privacy than Brave?

From what I read online, the answer is "no".

Speed is good --- but the goodness can get lost by time/bandwidth wasted on ads.
The elephant in the room: The user interface problem

We seem to dancing around a problem in the middle of the room like an elephant no one is acknowledging, and that is the interface to Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI is a place that requires several degrees of innovations.

I would argue that the first winning feat of innovation on interfacing with AI was the "CHAT BOX". And it works well enough for the 40% of use cases. And there is another 20% of uses that WE THE PEOPLE can use our imagination (prompt engineering) to manipulate the chat box to solve. On this topic, there was an article/opinion that said complex LLMs are unnecessary because 90% of people don't need it. Yeah. Because the chat box cannot do much more that would require heavier LLMs.

Complex AI and large data sets need nicer presentation and graphics, more actionable interfaces, and more refined activity concepts, as well as metadata that gives information on the reliability or usability of generated information.

Things like edit sections of an article, enhance articles, simplify articles, add relevant images, compress text to fit in a limited space, generate sql data from these reports, refine patterns found in a page with supplied examples, remove objects, add objects, etc.

Some innovation has to happen in MS Office interfaces. Some innovations have to happen in photoshop-like interfaces.

The author is complaining about utopian systems being incompatible with AI. I would argue AI is a utopian system being used in a dystopian world where we are lacking rich usable interfaces.
I’m pretty sure the “for profit cap” for Microsoft is something like a trillion dollars in return. 100x return cap at $10 billion invested. It basically prevents Microsoft from becoming a world super power with a military and nuclear weapons but not much else, especially considering they will reinvest a lot of their money for even more returns over time
Ah I see, thought I missed some major story, but apparently not.

The unemployment data is from 2018 BTW. But from what I perceive, developer unemployment in the US seems higher than usual right now.
https://youtu.be/zUshGP2UJEo
completely unrelated to Syria, was from Saudi Arabia, was aggressively against immigration - essentially a far right afd supporter
> Everyone has a price,

Speak for yourself.
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Like anyone would believe this drivel.

Undo what you’ve stated (non-profit)?

In other words, they want more money.

Go and “advance our mission”? LOL.

Incredible arrogance.
I've found it's pretty hard to induce specific dreams, but once I'm in a dream it's straightforward enough to modify it to my liking.

The hard part is altering the dream significantly without leaving a theta state and collapsing the dream. It all becomes about energy management. For example, two nights ago I found myself in a dream, and a few moments after I walked outside I realized the scene was too bright and noisy, and that my brain would wake up too much processing it.

So I had to hurry back inside, but I couldn't run either or that would release adrenaline. It took a lot of concentration and deliberate movement to get back inside before my dream fully collapsed, and it did collapse soon anyway minutes later.

With lucid sex dreams, it's similar. Energy conservation is key to extending the experience.
> he was under orders to shoot the plane down and now they’re trying to cover it up

I highly doubt that's the case. Even though Russia went full evil mode a while ago, it's not that reckless (yet). I don't foresee any sane explanation for this kind of order. I believe a mistake and/or miscommunication is more likely to be the root cause. Sadly it'd be quite naive to expect a thorough publicly available investigation summary from Russian side. You are right here.
Elon Musk dubs himself "Ozempic Santa" as weight-loss drugs go mainstream
Facial age test for skin aging
sure thanks I'll take a look at this
Sam said to not even trust him or OpenAI. [0]

But at this point, you should not even trust him at his own word not to trust him on that.

[0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY1VK8oHj5s]
Good catch but yes, my personal observation is the same and not only in US.
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It’s a coincidence
Any budget-friendly lucid dreaming devices that work?
What are examples of reality checks.
> it’s known that there’s no intelligence

To you & I that's true. But especially for the masses that's not true. It seems like at least once to day that I either talk to someone or hear someone via tv/radio/etc who does not understand this.

An example that amused me recently was a radio talk show host who had a long segment describing how he & a colleague had a long argument with ChatGPT to correct a factual inaccuracy about their radio show. And that they finally convinced ChatGPT that they were correct due to their careful use of evidence & reasoning. And the part they were most happy about was how it had now learned, and going forward ChatGPT would not spread these inaccuracies.

That anecdote is how the public at large sees these tools.
There’s a direct causal path from any event to every event in its future light cone. You need more than “if not X then not Y” to blame Y on X. Otherwise you end up with ridiculous things like saying your cat saved your life by barfing on the carpet because cleaning it up made you late for your bus which crashed.
I believe they offered Elon shares in return for the initial donation, and he turned them down because he didn't want a few billion worth of OpenAI, he wanted total executive control.

But we're all kind of arguing over which demon is poking the other the hardest with their pitchfork, here.
How close are the various satellite systems to achieving this?
MHA vs. MQA vs. GQA vs. MLA
Sure, no knock on the tool; it's good for people to choose where they want to spend their technical understanding. Just funny to be old enough to have seen some cycles firsthand.
I raised an issue for this: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3435
A fresh coat: Toyota Kentucky invests $922M to build advanced paint facility
You're still operating with the assumption the AI is doing independent work, it is not, it is advising the people doing the work. That is why people are the ones be augmented and enhanced, and not the other way around: people have the capacity to handle unforeseen scenarios, and with AI as a strategy advisor they'll do so with more confidence.
DeepSeekMoE: Towards Ultimate Expert Specialization in Mixture-of-Experts LMs
I Denmark we can have digital drivers licenses, id cards, public transportation passes, online authentication etc.All of them have physical counteeparts. I dont think there are any plans to outphase any of the physical counteeparts for various good reasons such as people not having phones, accessibility, compatibility and so on.

I imagine that the issues for making, deploying and integrating a digital-only passport on a global scale would be much harder.
Why not write tests with AI, too? Since using LLMs as coding assistants, my codebases have much more thorough documentation, testing and code coverage.

Don't start when you're already in a buggy dead-end. Test-driven development with LLMs should be done right from the start.

Also keep the code modular so it is easy to include the correct context. Fine-grained git commits. Feature-branches.

All the tools that help teams of humans of varying levels of expertise work together.
As stated in the release that Elon gave Hundreds of Millions dollars to the non profit, it's 1/3 of the early raised fund. So is it basically he gave away money for (ultimately) start up with no benefit for him?

Or is it just another tax magic stuff for him?
And how is what humans do any different ? What does it mean to understand ? Are we pattern matching as well?
Is this an AI summary of an AI article about AI?

I love it.
I didn’t consider that this might be their sly way to remove the 100x cap on returns. Lame.
Hopefully it shouldn't take much to get there. Bitwarden/Vaultwarden already allows exporting the private key and (as far as I can tell) all other metadata required by another implementation to import them.
For those of you who are not crusty aging Gen-Xers such as myself, perhaps I can introduce you to the movie "Dreamscape" which I found pretty captivating as a pre-teen.

Looks like it's out there on streaming services still: https://www.tvguide.com/movies/dreamscape/2000115208/
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
that one is on google though
This happens to be exactly what I was looking for in a Terminal app. Native UI, fast, and native screen splitting, doesn't try to do too much. Five stars
You'd think so but everything is weird and little makes sense, even if you have some level of awareness and control.
I had a debate recently with a colleague who is very skeptical of LLMs for every day work. Why not lean in on searching Google and cross referencing answers, like we've done for ages? And that's fine.

But my counterargument is that what I find to be so powerful about the LLMs is the ability to refine my question, narrow in on a tangent and then pull back out, etc. And *then* I can take its final outcome and cross reference it. With the old way of doing things, I often felt like I was stumbling in the dark trying to find the right search string. Instead I can use the LLM to do the heavy lifting for me in that regard.
I was really hoping repeating the mantra "mind awake, body asleep" would be the trick as suggested by Elliot from Mr Robot
It is a wonderful irony that AI makes competence all the more important.

It’s almost like all the thought leading that proclaimed the death of software eng was nothing but self-promotional noise. Huh, go figure.
I worry about let's plays (especially let's plays without commentary). They pretty clearly exist in a "yes, this is copyright infringement but yes, they are generally considered positive for a game" space.

The moment some game creator decides to test this will get very interesting. Not good interesting.
Who is Friedrich Merz, the pilot politician tipped to be German chancellor?
If country a starts a war and then country b defending itself accidentally shoots down a civilian airliner it’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. You’re saying it’s completely ridiculous to blame country a?
Yes, they do. The base models. They gimp those in stupid ways ALL the time to use up questionable old components. Just look at how silly the iPad lineup got with regards to how they interface with the Pencil. Low end models use old lightning Pencils that require plugging in and an adapter from lightning to USB C. Then you got models with way too little storage and cut back storage so it's smaller and considerably slower than what's advertised, etc.
"...already carrying Internet traffic..."

The cables in the study were not carrying any Internet traffic.
I would argue if you asked 100 random people to draw a red Vs not-red line in that experiment you described, short of colour blindness, you would not see very much variance in the position of the line. That is why I believe the terms have converged on a meaning.

In fact, I think it would be very hard to construct an experiment where people did not use the term red in a consistent fashion.

I agree with you that formal definitions of words come after the fact. But meaning of words are always present; everyone who uses a word uses it with some understanding if its meaning, that they want to convey. And as words converge on a shared meaning, they become effective for communicating meanings. I'm arguing introvert/extrovert have been around for a long time, and have not converged on a consistent meaning. The terms have too much variance in meaning to be useful at communicating. One person uses the word and means something very different from when someone else uses the word. In 20 years time this variance will likely still be a problem. If the definition of a word shifts over time, that's ok as long as the variance remains low; it just means it has a new definition. But if the variance is high, it means the word isn't very useful/effective for communication.
I can reliably meditate myself into a lucid dream if you're interested in learning the technique. You've probably encounteted it before. I also just regularly find myself in lucid dreams because I'm constantly looking for discrepancies and gain control the moment I find one.

The basic technique is just to meditate to sleep by counting your breaths, while not moving at all. It is really hard to pull off until you get used to it, but with some dedication you can get decent success. If you do it right, your body enters sleep paralysis while your brain is still awake, and you get dropped into a dream.
What adversarial intelligence would fly drones at night extremely low with their lights on?

IMO most likely commercial LIDAR mapping by some company that’d rather remain stealth.
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